The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!

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The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!

Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:23pm

Not quite as bizarre as the Swedish A CHORUS LINE but pretty damn funky:

http://www.arena-theater.de/

A German tour hitting small cities. Michael Grief clearly was not involved. My favorite is the picture of Roger holding what looks like a syringe to me.

#2

re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!

Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:27pm

I like the Angel. Kind of looks like a joke.

#3

re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!

Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:31pm

um...wow...

#4

re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!

Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:32pm

The Angel kind of looks like Jack Lemon in SOME LIKE IT HOT.

I imagine this is very much what the show is going to look like when it hits the community theatre circuit in another couple of years

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re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!

Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:33pm

Where are we looking?

#6

re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!

Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:33pm

Besides how bad this looks, the set looks very... intresting and different.

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re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!

Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:35pm

Yeah.. we're are we looking?

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#8

re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!

Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:41pm

I don't mind the set at all actually...although I think they could have gone farther with it.

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#9

re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!

Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:42pm

just hit the "musicals" tab - and you'll see a poster for RENT

#10

re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!

Posted: 10/9/06 at 8:21pm

Much as I dislike this look, it looks like something that might have been produced in 1996 in the basement of a cafe or something...more like "Rent" as a performance piece and not as a musical meant for the the stage. Interesting. At least they've actually re-interpreted the sets and costumes--a lot of international productions seem to do variations on the original, and they just end up looking glossed-up and amateurish (Bolivia, anyone?).

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re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!

Posted: 10/9/06 at 11:08pm

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#12

re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!

Posted: 10/10/06 at 1:26am

I kind of like the look. As much as I love the original staging and overall design, I think this design could work well. However, I don't really like how they costumed JoAnne, she looks too sloppy to pass for a professional lawyer Harvard grad type.

#13

re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!

Posted: 10/10/06 at 1:55am

Looks cool to me. I would hope no one thinks that it should be designed and staged like the Broadway and National Touring productions--it's not that production of Rent.

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#14

re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!

Posted: 10/10/06 at 11:49am

I don't think it looks half bad. It definitely could have been taken further, but it's already better than the dreadful Broadway set.

#15

The actual link to this damn thing!

Posted: 10/10/06 at 12:18pm

Production Photos Link

#16

The actual link to this damn thing!

Posted: 10/12/06 at 3:41pm

Someone got a glimpse at the cast: http://www.compulsivebowlers.org/boards/viewtopic.php?t=5127

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#17

The actual link to this damn thing!

Posted: 10/12/06 at 4:38pm

I like the set but I'm not too crazy about the costumes.

#18

The actual link to this damn thing!

Posted: 10/12/06 at 4:45pm

Not that bizarre. Am I missing something?

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#19

The actual link to this damn thing!

Posted: 10/12/06 at 4:53pm

I personally think it looks like Godspell, only depressing.

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#20

The actual link to this damn thing!

Posted: 10/12/06 at 4:58pm

There Mark looks really geeky... in a good way

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#21

The actual link to this damn thing!

Posted: 10/12/06 at 5:52pm

Their Roger kind of looks like Cary Shields.

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#22

The actual link to this damn thing!

Posted: 10/12/06 at 7:10pm

That's just weird.

#23

The actual link to this damn thing!

Posted: 10/12/06 at 7:28pm

What the heck?

#24

The actual link to this damn thing!

Posted: 10/15/06 at 7:47pm

Apparently it really IS Rent like you've never seen it before. Quite WTF: http://www.compulsivebowlers.org/boards/viewtopic.php?t=5132

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